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While it has done much for the economy of France as a whole, the Common Market has been no boon to the French subsidiaries of General Motors and Remington Rand. Hard hit by massive French imports of low-priced Italian refrigerators. G.M.'s Frigidaire plant in France early this month laid off 685 of its 3,100 workers. Last week Remington, which has steadily lost ground in the French market to West German typewriter makers, announced that it planned to dismiss 300 French employees and move all its European portable-typewriter production to a newer plant in The Netherlands...
...Objections. "We have one valuable boon," says Publisher Worley. "Because we aren't in competition with anyone, publishers of other magazines are very helpful, and we've learned a great deal about the technical side of things in just a few months. From now on, the pieces will be shorter, and we'll use more pictures." Hopefully, such changes will nudge Atlas out of the money-losing habit that afflicts so many small-circulation magazines. For the moment, Eleanor Worley has no objection to making up Atlas' monthly losses out of her own pocketbook (though...
Thank you, TIME, for an enlightening final tribute to Marilyn Monroe. This scholarly talent, imbued with maturity and good taste, was I'm sure a boon to her many friends and fans here in the golden land of sunshine and yellow journalism...
...Boon yearns after the car with the innocent lust of man for machine. Somehow enlisting the help of Boss Priest's grandson, young Lucius, Boon "borrows" the car. Twenty-three and a half hours later-a record for the 80 miles of swamp road they heroically cover-Boon and Lucius reach Memphis. Just four days after that, they are back home in Jefferson again. In a series of outlandishly comic episodes, they have somehow lost the car and won it back, found a stolen horse and raced it, spent an innocent night in a Memphis bordello run by young...
...everything that has happened for nearly a hundred years exists in an instantaneous, perpetual, heroic present. Faulkner does not so much invent as he seems to recollect his action and anecdote from an existing, constantly growing body of lore. The Reivers is no exception. The outrageous doings of Boon and Lucius in 1905 are told, in 1962, by Lucius to his grandson. Mostly, Lucius remembers things as the eleven-year-old boy he was when they happened. But on occasion, usually to compare the present unfavorably with the past, he speaks with the knowledge of what has been going...